butterfish (n.)

  1. any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin

  2. small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

    [ Syn: stromateid fish , stromateid ]

  3. slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters

    [ Syn: rock gunnel , pholis gunnellus ]

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